Mother leaves toddlers home alone while at work

Canton police arrested a woman who went to work, leaving her toddlers alone Thursday. One was found in a dirty diaper, the other playing barefoot with bleach near broken glass.

Lori Monsewicz

A woman returning from work Thursday was arrested in her apartment parking lot after a maintenance worker found her 2- and 3-year-old children alone earlier in the day.

One child was found asleep in a dirty diaper. The other was found playing with bleach and barefoot near broken glass, according to Stark County Jail records

The 24-year-old woman, who lives in the 1600 block of 10th Street NE, was arrested at 2:30 p.m. on a misdemeanor charge of endangering children, the jail records said. She was jailed and then released less than five hours later after posting a $1,000 bond.

The Repository does not typically name misdemeanor crime suspects.

Jail records said the woman left for work about 6 a.m. at her job as a customer service representative for a downtown business, leaving her children home alone.

A maintenance worker found them about noon and called police, the records said.

When police arrived they found a 3-year-old child playing with cleaning supplies and bleach pulled from under the sink, the jail records said. The child was also barefoot in an area where large pieces of glass from a broken cup were lying on the living room floor.

Police also found a 2-year-old child in a soiled diaper asleep in a chair, the jail records said.